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...United States exporters at present employ a conservative and intractable credit system, a strong deterrent to countries which already have trouble meeting our inflationary prices. Even more important, South American countries need capital and technical assistance to build the hydroelectric developments and highways which they vitally need. In 1953 Milton Eisenhower, after touring South America, made a number of specific suggestions: a stable and consistent trade policy, new tax laws encouraging investment in foreign countries, public loans, and technical help in economic planning. In three years, however, nothing has been done to carry out this program. Technical assistance...
Increased economic assistance and more co-operative programs would, of course, be ideal, but the Latin American countries would be greatful for even less tangible signs of interest. Milton Eisenhower's one visit worked a remarkable change in South American attitude toward the United States. Argentina, for instance, turned overnight from hostility to equally fervid admiration. But, aside from the one Eisenhower bid, little has been done to increase mutual understanding. In spite of the Fulbright program and others, student, teacher, and labor leader exchange has been negligible. Technical assistance has been almost equally lacking. This is largely because neither...
...that's a hell of a note, thought Dr. Milton Krop, as he read it. The note was certainly not what he had expected to find when he made a routine call at the "Haunted House," a Victorian horror in Jackson Heights, on the Long Island reaches of New York City, where old Mrs. Folsom lived with her daughter. He stared at the bottle marked Poison that he clutched in one hand, and then at the terrified young woman whose wrist he held firmly in the other. The bottle, as the doctor had reason to know, contained a placebo...
Bales of It. Dr. Milton Krop was not the brightest penny that ever came out of the gutter, but for once in his life he thought fast: with that heart of his, he could hardly last more than two years, but he was still young enough to have a little fun before the finish. Fun costs money. Well, the girl would have money, bales of it, as soon as the estate was settled. He looked her over. "Hair skinned back, big nose. Skin color like a mushroom . . . nothing clothes." He thought: "What have I got to lose...
Several weeks later they were married, but the marriage did not turn out to be what the doctor ordered. Milton was all set to live it up, but his wife proved to be an almost pathological stinge. Milt was a low-born lunk who still crossed his knife and fork on the plate when he finished his dinner, but his wife was the sort of girl who lusted after little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does...